Cormorant fishing is a traditional fishing method in which fishermen use trained cormorants to fish in rivers. Historically, cormorant fishing has taken place in Japan and China since about 960 AD. This technique has also been used in other countries.

this is just lovely: Fishing boat on aldeburgh beach, Suffolk, England

Smuggling prospered in Polperro when it was developed as a port in the c. & reached it's zenith in the late c. when Britain's wars w/ America & France hastened high taxation of imported goods. Local fisherman b